commandevscommandéesTell them apart

Quick tell: commande is a noun, commandées is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“commande” is a noun and “commandées” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,166
“commande” frequency rank
#24,912
“commandées” frequency rank
27078
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commande commandées
Definition Ordre donné à un fabricant, à un ouvrier, à un artiste de faire un certain ouvrage, ou à un marchand de faire une certaine livraison. Féminin pluriel de commandé.

Where the eye mixes commande and commandées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence.

8 ch
commande
10 ch
commandées

Visual trap between commande and commandées

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: commande is \kɔ.mɑ̃d\ while commandées is \kɔ.mɑ̃.de\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27078, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commande is recorded at frequency rank #2,166, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃d\. commandées is at rank #24,912, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.de\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 27078, this pair ranks #331,209 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commande vs commandées

Shared letters: acdemno. Private to "commande": -. Private to "commandées": .

"commande" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "commandées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • commandeccommande · cmomande · comamnde · comande · commadne · commandde · commaned · commannde

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "commande" and "commandées" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "commande" is a noun and "commandées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "commande" or "commandées"?
"commande" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,166 in our French list, against #24,912 for "commandées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "commande" and "commandées" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "commande" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "commandées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #331,209 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "commande" and "commandées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commandées vs commandites". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #331,209 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list